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World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier is sunk and another carrier is heavily damaged, while two Japanese carriers and one cru�
World War I: Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations.
World War I: Brazil declares war on the Central Powers.
Malleco Viaduct in Chile, at the time "the highest railroad bridge in the world", is inaugurated by President José Manuel Balmaceda.
World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
World War I: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania a few hours later.
World War I: A new Polish government in western Galicia is established, triggering the Polish–Ukrainian War.
Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five.
Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
The Soviet battleship Novorossiysk sinks after probably striking a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol, with a loss of more than 600 sailers.
World War II: The Dutch city of Breda is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
World War I: the German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–19.
World War I : the Ottoman Empire enters the war on the side of the Central Powers.
The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.
World War II: Lt. Tony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier drown while taking code books from the sinking German submarine U-559.
World War I: The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies.
World War I: Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, a state union of Kingdom of Hungary and Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia is abolished with decisions of Croatian and Hungarian parliam�